Knife In The Belly-button

Routes - Hiking - Valley of the Majella Forum

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The hike is a small passage in the valley of the Forum so you need to prepare a car for recovery. The first section up to the ford can be crossed with families and young children by a path of return. The final stretch leading to the quarry of Pretoria and was expanded to permit the passage of the means for the adjustment of the aqueduct.

The path is all within the beautiful beech forest in the valley of the Forum, is initially marked as a trail as a path 32 and then 22, but also with various other names such as VF2, etc.., This difference naming comes from the fact that the park has decided to twist the numbers that was on the historical map of the trails published by the CAI of Chieti.

Signs?

follows from Pretoria by car, the road to Passo Lanciano, reaching just returned after a walk of the aqueduct with a small parking lot, leave the car cross the street to get dirt in apparent enclosed by a chain.

From here, follow the dirt road, ignoring the path that descends to the valley to the left of the angel, until you reach the remains of a charcoal teaching here and go left facing A short climb up to a house water supply. It goes on clear path through beech forest until you reach a small area with a picnic table and another house of the aqueduct and then reaches one of the most characteristic points of the entire route a building with an arch between rocks and a local above. We pass under the arch to reach the river court. So far, the excursion can be undertaken by anyone including children.

If you want you can go up the bed of the river to reach the amphitheater from which rises the Forum.

Amphitheatre of the sources of the Forum

It crosses the river and then climb out and then begins to navigate through the woods following the obvious path marked with the number 32, watch at a point where the path is slightly collapsed especially in spring or after the first snowfall.

Continue in beech wood, attention to the path 32 becomes 22, at one point the path turns decidedly left (pole of the park) from here continue on a path carved by water and very slippery when it rained between ferns giant and then into a clearing until you reach a dirt road, turn left and follow this until you cross the dirt road that climbs from Forcatura Rapino. Take another left and follow the dirt road, pass on a toulouse right and continue up to a fountain.

Behind the fountain the path that goes down to the quarry of Pretoria shortly after it crosses the path that goes from the Valley of the Angel and shortly arrive at the quarry.

Shortly after the quarry to the left on the street is the old mill town.

engraving inside the Mill City

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